Patents by Inventor Conrad NICKEL

Conrad NICKEL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11936275
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board carrying a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a plug connector which is fixed to an outside of the housing by a flange. The plug connector covers an opening of the housing and includes contacts directly electrically contacting the printed circuit board and passing through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a pressure compensator including a sintered filter to vent the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC GPM GMBH
    Inventor: Conrad Nickel
  • Patent number: 11848513
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board carrying a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a connector attached on the outside of the housing by a flange. The connector covers an opening of the housing and includes contacts for direct electrical contact with the printed circuit board which passes through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a pressure compensator in the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC GPM GmbH
    Inventor: Conrad Nickel
  • Patent number: 11708843
    Abstract: An electric coolant pump (1) conveys cooling fluid in order to cool a combustion engine of a vehicle. The electric coolant pump (1) has a pump impeller (2) for accelerating the coolant to be conveyed, a rotor shaft (3) on which the pump impeller (2) is fixed, an electric motor (6), having a stator (8) and a rotor (7), for driving the rotor shaft (3). A control circuit (13) controls the electric motor (6). A pump housing (10) accommodates at least the control circuit (13) and the electric motor (6). The coolant to be conveyed is able to flow through the pump housing (10). The coolant to be conveyed thereby flows around the stator (8), the rotor (6) and the control circuit (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC GPM GMBH
    Inventors: Conrad Nickel, Franz Pawellek, Jens Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20230060455
    Abstract: A motor vehicle cooling system with an electric coolant pump includes a housing with a pump shaft. The electric coolant pump includes an electric motor in a motor housing. The electric coolant pump is at least partially accommodated in the pump shaft. A clamping device including at least two clamping arms is attached to an upper side of the motor housing. The clamping arms are supported with free ends thereof on an inner side of the pump shaft to clamp the electric coolant pump to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Luis HERRLING, Heidemarie WEINERT, Conrad NICKEL, Jakob SCHNITZER
  • Publication number: 20220352785
    Abstract: A motor housing cover assembly includes a motor housing cover of an electric motor with an upper side and a lower side and a printed circuit board with electronic components. The motor housing cover is penetrated by electrical contacts which each make electrical contact with the printed circuit board with a first end region and are in an electrical plug connector with a second end region, which is arranged on the upper side of the motor housing cover. The motor housing cover, the printed circuit board and the plug connector are at least partially surrounded by a molding compound in a molding process, the molding compound fixing the printed circuit board and the plug connector to the motor housing cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Luis HERRLING, Heidemarie WEINERT, Jakob SCHNITZER, Conrad NICKEL, David REICHARDT
  • Publication number: 20220344996
    Abstract: A method of electrically contacting at least one enameled copper wire, which forms a winding carried by a first component, with a second component of an electric motor, generator, sensor or electromagnet. The method includes forming at least one wire end of the at least one enameled copper wire into an electrical contact, positioning the electrical contact in a molding process, a molding compound formed in the molding process at least partially surrounds the first component and the at least one wire end, and contacting the electrical contact with the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Conrad NICKEL, Jakob SCHNITZER
  • Publication number: 20220247141
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator including a stator core and coils. The coils are defined by a winding wire including winding wire ends electrically contacted with a printed circuit board at an end surface through connectors. The connectors each include at least two insulation displacement contacts receiving a winding wire end of a stator winding. Each connector includes a single electrical connection to the printed circuit board. The connector includes a base body with an underside in contact with the printed circuit board. Each of the at least two insulation displacement contacts includes a clamping slot perpendicular to the underside of the base body. The clamping slots are defined by spaced legs extending from the base body, at least two of the spaced legs being resilient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Frank SCHWAMBERGER, Conrad NICKEL
  • Publication number: 20220149689
    Abstract: A pump includes an electric motor with a rotor mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation and circumferentially surrounding a stator that includes a stator core and coils wound on the stator core. The windings are defined by a winding wire with winding wire end sections electrically contacted directly with a printed circuit board at an end surface through insulation displacement contacts each including at least one opening for insertion of a winding wire end section, the at least one opening being a slot extending parallel or substantially parallel to a surface of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Frank SCHWAMBERGER, Jakob SCHNITZER, Conrad NICKEL
  • Publication number: 20220106948
    Abstract: A pump includes an electric motor with a rotor mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation and surrounding a stator circumferentially. The stator includes a stator core and coils wound on the stator core, the coils being made from a winding wire with winding wire end sections electrically contacted at an end surface with a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is surrounded by a plug assembly circumferentially with respect to the axis of rotation. The plug assembly includes contacts which are electrically contacted at a first end with the printed circuit board and are directed radially outwardly at a second end in order to define a plug to contact the printed circuit board with an electrical controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Frank SCHWAMBERGER, Jens HOFFMANN, Conrad NICKEL, Jakob SCHNITZER
  • Publication number: 20220090589
    Abstract: A pump includes an electric motor with a rotor rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation and circumferentially surrounding a stator. The stator includes a stator core and coils wound on the stator core. The windings are made of a winding wire including winding wire end portions which are electrically contacted with a circuit board on an end side. The rotor, the stator, and the circuit board are surrounded by a motor housing which is adjoined by a pump housing, the circuit board being electrically contacted with an intermediate plug to contact the circuit board with an electrical controller. The intermediate plug includes contacts which are injection-molded into the intermediate plug, are electrically contacted with a first end at the circuit board, include a second end arc directed at least partially radially outwardly, and are introduced into a connecting region of the intermediate plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Frank SCHWAMBERGER, Conrad NICKEL, Jakob SCHNITZER
  • Publication number: 20220087039
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board with a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a connector which is fastened on an outside of the housing by a flange, which covers an opening of the housing, and which includes contacts directly electrically contacting the printed circuit board. The contacts pass through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a main housing in which the contacts extend and which adjoins the flange. The connector includes a pressure compensator which is in the main housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Conrad NICKEL
  • Publication number: 20220085686
    Abstract: A pump unit assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board carrying a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a plug connector which is fixed to an outside of the housing by a flange. The plug connector covers an opening of the housing and includes contacts directly electrically contacting the printed circuit board and passing through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a pressure compensator including a sintered filter to vent the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Conrad NICKEL
  • Publication number: 20220085545
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board carrying a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a connector attached on the outside of the housing by a flange. The connector covers an opening of the housing and includes contacts for direct electrical contact with the printed circuit board which passes through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a pressure compensator in the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Conrad NICKEL
  • Publication number: 20220018345
    Abstract: An electric coolant pump to cool battery packs of a battery-powered motor vehicle includes an electric motor with a shaft. The electric coolant pump includes a screw spindle pump with a drive spindle and at least one secondary spindle. The drive spindle is connected to the shaft of the electric motor in a rotationally fixed manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Conrad NICKEL, Franz PAWELLEK
  • Publication number: 20210376669
    Abstract: A pump includes an electric motor with a rotor rotatably supported about an axis of rotation and circumferentially surrounding a stator. The stator includes a stator core and coils wound on the stator core. The windings are defined by a winding wire including winding wire end sections that are electrically contacted with a printed circuit board by a crimp connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Frank SCHWAMBERGER, Jakob SCHNITZER, Conrad NICKEL
  • Patent number: 11125244
    Abstract: An electric coolant pump is used as an auxiliary water pump in a vehicle. The pump includes radial mounting of the shaft (4) is provided by means of a coolant-lubricated radial sliding bearing (41) arranged between the pump impeller (2) and the rotor (32). A dry-running electric motor (3) with a radially inner stator (31) and a radially outer rotor (32) is accommodated in a motor chamber (13) separated from the pump chamber (10). A shaft seal (5) is between the radial sliding bearing (41) and the motor chamber (13). The rotor (32) is bell-shaped with an inner surface facing the shaft seal (5) and being fixed to the shaft seal (5) to axially overlap with the shaft (4). The motor chamber (13) has an opening to the atmosphere, which is closed by a liquid-tight pressure equalization membrane (6) that is permeable to vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC GPM GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Pawellek, Conrad Nickel, Jens Hoffmann, Robin Büsch, Paul Ludwig, Jakob Schnitzer, Silvio Werner
  • Patent number: 11092153
    Abstract: An electrically driven gerotor pump has a gerotor which comprises a stationary outer gerotor element with an inner toothing that is axially delimited by two chamber walls, wherein each chamber-forming foot section of the inner toothing is paired with a pressure valve which is connected to the outlet. The gerotor also comprises an inner gerotor element with an outer toothing which is guided in the outer gerotor element in a circumferential manner on an eccentric section of the shaft and is mounted in, a rotatable manner so as to mesh with the inner toothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC GPM GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Pawellek, Conrad Nickel
  • Patent number: 11092159
    Abstract: In an electrical coolant pump, preferably for use as an additional water pump in a vehicle, a radial bearing of the shaft is provided by means of a radial slide bearing lubricated with coolant on the separating element which is disposed between the pump impeller and the rotor. A dry-running electric motor has a radially inner stator and a radially outer rotor is accommodated within the motor chamber. A shaft seal is disposed between the radial slide bearing and the motor chamber. The rotor is formed in a cup shape, the inner surface of which faces the shaft seal and is fixed to the shaft in an axially overlapping manner. The motor chamber has an opening to the atmosphere which is closed by a liquid-tight and vapor-permeable pressure equalizing membrane. The separating element is configured as a support flange with a separating portion and an axial projection into the motor chamber, to which the stator is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC GPM GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Pawellek, Conrad Nickel, Jens Hoffmann, Robin Büsch, Silvio Werner, Jakob Schnitzer, Paul Ludwig
  • Publication number: 20210222694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dry-running, oil-free orbiter vacuum pump, on which a friction-optimized surface is provided on components. The dry-running orbiter vacuum pump comprises inter alia a pump housing with a cylindrical pump chamber and an orbiter eccentric piston with a guide slot and a cylindrical exterior surface, a cylindrical cross-section of the orbiter eccentric piston being smaller than a cylindrical cross-section of the pump chamber. At at least one of a radial air gap and an axial air gap formed in the cylindrical pump chamber between the orbiter eccentric piston and the pump housing at least one sliding surface is arranged in a manner exposed to the air gap; wherein the at least one sliding surface comprises a microstructure including cavities for decreasing an exposed surface of the at least one sliding surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Conrad Nickel, Jakob Schnitzer, Franz Pawellek
  • Publication number: 20210222693
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dry-running, oil-free orbiter vacuum pump with an improved bearing arrangement consisting of a material pairing capable of dry-running A pivot bearing with a bearing cavity open towards the pump chamber for receiving a pivot head of a blocking slide is arranged inside the pump housing. The orbiter vacuum pump capable of dry-running is characterized in particular in that at least one sliding surface of the pivot bearing allocated to the bearing cavity or to the pivot head is made of a composite material including a solid lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Conrad Nickel, Jakob Schnitzer, Franz Pawellek